My random ramblings and stray reflections about anything from social justice and global/international issues to internship/job postings peppered with the occasional event info that might interest friends and foes alike.

Saturday, October 07, 2006

The World Bank has launched a WEBSITE WITH INFORMATION ON EARTHQUAKERECONSTRUCTION: http://www.worldbank.org/pakistanearthquake

Information included in the website:

SIGNS OF PROGRESS:- 75% of entitled homeowners have recently received a second tranche of ahousing grant- 85% of the more than 240,000 eligible families are receiving livelihoodsupport.

CHALLENGES REMAINING:- Over 1.8 million people face a second winter in makeshift shelters and tents- Cost of housing reconstruction has increased- 10,000 orphaned children, and thousands of widowed women face an uncertainfuture.

Come and join us as we celebrate the launching of a nationwide campaign to enlist university students across the country in helping to clear landmines and prevent their devastating effects on children and families in more than 70 countries around the world.

October 25, 2006 from 9AM – Noon

Butcher Suite, Kessel Campus Center on the Pace Pleasantville campus.

Hear:Zach Hudsonof UNA/USA Adopt a Minefield offering a slide

presentation on the landmine problem;

Student representatives from Pace and otheruniversities who are joining us in the project, “Preventing the Devastating Effects of Landmines on Children.”

9 -9:30 Refreshments: Bagels, muffins and coffee

9:30-Noon – Panel of Speakers and Interactive discussion with the audience

Students in the Keys to Global Peace course, the Pace Political Science and Psychology Depts., The UNA/USA Adopt-a-Minefield Program, the Pace Pleasantville Honors College, the Community Outreach Program of Pace University and UNA/USA Westchester are inaugurating this program with the exciting half-day conference.

“Ten years ago at the age of seven, Farah Ahmedi was running late for school in her hometown of Kabul, Afghanistan.Farah loved school and loved learning – so for her, running late was a very very big deal.Spying a shortcut, she quickly took it, and ran down a back alley. But in a flash, her life changed forever. Farah had stepped on a landmine.”

Thursday, October 05, 2006

The United Nations Association of New York’s Young Professionals for International Cooperation

In cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN and the Swiss Consulting Group

invites you to a unique interactive workshop facilitated by special guest,

Thomas Zweifel, CEO of the Swiss Consulting Group.

Admission: (Includes Reception and the First 50 Guests Receive a copy of “Culture Clash: Managing the Global High-Performance Team”

UNA-NY and YPNYC members- $25.00Non-members- $35.00Students- Join UNA for just $10 at the door!Non-students- Join UNA for just $25

Welcome RemarksAmbassador Peter Maurer, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United NationsWorkshopThomas D. Zweifel, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of the Swiss Consulting Group; Professor of Leadership and Cross-Cultural Management at Columbia University and at St. Gallen Business School (HSG).Closing RemarksAmbassador Raymond Loretan, Consul General of Switzerland

Presented with the Mayor’s Office for Film, Television and Broadcasting

Monday, October 16

6:30 to 9:30 pm

The New School, Theresa Lang Center, 2nd Floor, 55 West 13th Street (between 5th Ave. and Ave. of the Americas)

An Evening with Director Sydney Pollack

Don’t miss this special evening and rare opportunity to learn from a true master.One of our greatest directors of this (or any) era, Sydney Pollack talks about his amazing career as a director, producer, cinematographer and actor, and offers tips for those starting out in the film industry.

An accomplished actor, Pollack has also played major roles in a long list of films, including Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut and Woody Allen’s Husbands and Wives, as well as over 46 Academy Award nominations for other movies.

Over the years he has won too many awards to mention, including two Oscars forOut of Africa (Best Director and Best Picture.)

Hear from Spike Lee’s executive producer and editor – and a panel of major players in the film industry. Learn what it takes to make a great documentary from our panel of accomplished, prolific and multi award-winning New York filmmakers. Find out how these great filmmakers got started in the business, and what it takes to get hired it in this challenging and competitive world.

Meet the winner of the Best Director award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and learn how he raised the money to produce one of the most talked-about movies of the year!! Montiel astonished the film world when he attracted big stars and turned his book into a compelling and powerful New York story based on his coming of age on the mean streets of Queens in the mid-eighties.

Critical Acclaim: New York Times critic A. O. Scott says: “What sets the film apart, and makes it one of the more remarkable American directing debuts in recent years, is Mr. Montiel’s passionate, almost reckless engagement with the possibilities of the medium...(he) has the eye of a born filmmaker. Working with a large, mostly young cast, he has made the picture so full of life and feeling that the screen can hardly contain it.”

In response to the terrible humanitarian crisis resulting from the invasion of Lebanon and continued occupation of Palestine, please join NAAP-NY as we come together to support our brothers and sisters back home.

The evening will include a formal dinner, thought-provoking program, and great auction items. All proceeds will be donated to ANERA (American Near East Refugee Aid) in support of their medical relief and food programs in both Lebanon and Gaza.

Program to Include Eyewitness Accounts From War and Updates From Relief Agency

Monday, October 02, 2006

NORTH EAST REGION SUPPORT GROUP New York, New Jersey and New England states

Poker Tournament

Ready to take a gamble on charity?

Put your money where your heart is!

Join us for an evening of no-limit Texas Hold’em, where all proceeds will benefit the efforts of The Citizens Foundation to build schools in underserved and impoverished areas of Pakistan.

Buy-in: $150 (rebuys permitted for first two hours)

Date/Time: Friday - October 27th -7:30 pm.

Location: PrattMansion, 1027 Fifth Avenue

Grand prize of $1,000

Not a player? Join us instead at 9:30 pm. Enjoy the evening’s festivities at this charming mansion, including a light buffet, cash bar, music, door prize and a choreographed fashion interlude by designer, Ghazala Asam. Tickets: $75

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Zeeshan Suhail is a communications professional with several years of experience in international private sector and development organizations. He is a Board Member for the Washington, D.C.-based Americans for Informed Democracy and the New York City-based World Faith. His articles on international development and Western-Muslim world relations have been featured in media outlets internationally. Zeeshan has advanced leadership certifications and has been selected as a Carnegie New Leader by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs and a Muslim Leader of Tomorrow by the Cordoba Initiative.
Zeeshan holds an undergraduate degree in International Business from Queens College-CUNY (where he was also the first Muslim Vice President of student government in the college's then 35 years of student government history) and a graduate degree in International Relations from the Graduate Center-CUNY. Zeeshan is fluent in Urdu, and proficient in other South Asian languages and enjoys independent cinema, old South Asian film songs and traveling. He is based in Lahore, Pakistan.